Downstream

was eating about 10,000
calories a day and still losing
weight.’
The year after Andy’s swim
Lewis Pugh also started near
Lechlade, in order to swim
the length of the river,
without a wetsuit. Then
thirty-six, Lewis was already
a noted endurance and cold-
water swimmer. Born in
Plymouth, his family
emigrated to South Africa
when he was ten. He returned